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Military service
Service number:
J/5105
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
10 Sqdn.
Death:
December 29, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 1. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of J. W. Paul Skidmore and Gerda Skidmore; husband of Audrey Georgena Skidmore, of Saint John, New Brunswick.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
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Photo of JAMES WILLIAM PAUL SKIDMORE
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Inscription
Flying Officer JAMES WILLIAM PAUL SKIDMORE, Pilot Officer ALBERT WILLIAM RUNTE, Pilot Officer KENNETH GEORGE SCHAEFER, Flight Sergeant ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Corporal CECIL GEORGE HEENEY and Leading Aircraftman JOHN SYDNEY LEGON were presumed to have died on December 29, 1941, the day their aircraft went missing in Newfoundland. They are commemorated on these panels of the Ottawa Memorial, which contain the names of 30 members of the RCAF who died in 1941 and have no known grave. -
Newspaper clipping
Flying Officer JAMES WILLIAM PAUL SKIDMORE, Pilot Officer ALBERT WILLIAM RUNTE, Pilot Officer KENNETH GEORGE SCHAEFER, Flight Sergeant ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Corporal CECIL GEORGE HEENEY and Leading Aircraftman JOHN SYDNEY LEGON were listed as ¿Missing in Active Service¿ in Canada in the 151st Casualty List of the Royal Canadian Air Force published in the Globe & Mail on January 3, 1942, three days after their aircraft went missing. -
Newspaper clipping
Flying Officer JAMES WILLIAM PAUL SKIDMORE, Pilot Officer ALBERT WILLIAM RUNTE, Pilot Officer KENNETH GEORGE SCHAEFER, Flight Sergeant ARTHUR CHAPMAN, and Leading Aircraftman JOHN SYDNEY LEGON were reported 'previously reported missing in Newfoundland now presumed dead', in the 336th Casualty List of the Royal Canadian Air Force published in the Globe & Mail on August 7, 1942. The name of Corporal CECIL GEORGE HEENEY who died along with these men, is missing from this list. -
Ottawa Memorial
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Inscription
Dedicatory inscription at the Ottawa Memorial -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore as commemorated on the Ottawa Memorial, Ottawa, ON. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Memorial
Ottawa Memorial … In honoured memory of the men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who gave their lives in Canada, in the United States of America and in neighbouring lands and seas and who have no known grave. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens October 2023. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John Telegraph Journal newspaper c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James William Paul Skidmore
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 44 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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